#wish s3 was better

[levok]

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My lowkey fave bit

[girllookingoutwindow]

Dance is a love language.

And like all the love language is based in connection.

When you're dancing with another you would have to create , even for a moment, a team, a  partnership.

But it's not easy to find a way to create a connection with the other and to understand their needs and necessities.

Dancing is a symbol of their love and their life together.

The first dance we see between Colin an Pen, it's there to show us something about them.

The story of their relationship is a tale about dance. In dancing they find each other. The dance floor belongs to them. The first we know about them is that Pen desires to dance, she wants to be in the dance floor, with him. She's new in society and she wishes to be part of it. But even when he's dancing with her occasionally, he's not seeing her in the way she wants to. He is given his attention to Marina, and trying to save her. But is him dancing with her the first time that's heartbreaking. She's taking her place. The place that Pen wish to have and she belongs to.

Penelope and Colin story is told to us between dances. A very beautiful way to shows us a love story. Even Anthony is foreshadowing their destiny saying the contrary of the truth: they dance together, they will love each other because of that.

With the happy moments , every encounter, every overstep, and  struggle is there too. Love is a dance. A way to feel the other.

The first dance is a happy dance. They're young and they're being playful. We can see, just there, they're friends because the way they smile  to each other. When they are dancing are enjoying themselves and they're having a synchronization: not only about the steps, about the energy of the moment. They're having fun, enjoying the company of the other. It's very obvious they enjoy being with the other.

Without words, we know, this is not the only one time we're going to see them dance. Because dancing is for them a common place. A place where everything else doesn't matter. Even when the social rules are present, even when they can't communicate properly with words or find each other there: the dance says the truth. Their bodies are talking with honesty through them. They cannot lie.

A moment it's very important is 1x08 rejection to the dance. He wanted to spend the rest of the time he was going to be there with her. She's saying no to him because she wants to hide her feelings about him leaving. We know that, he doesn't. He's just reading her rejection to him. And in a way that rejection implies a desconection, a miscommunication. At the same time a different path. They're not dancing together anymore, because they separating themselves of the other. They need to go different paths, following separate steps, to find each other again.

Lead and being lead is not easy either. Because involves trust. Colin is a good dance leader, but trut is one of the reason is Pen trust him enough to let her leader. To do so they need to prest full attention to the other.

In the end of season 2, when they are dancing is very obvious that Colin is oblivious about the reaction of the rest of the people about the way he's dancing with Pen. Specially because we see him, and they did too, dance with someone else before and it's very obvious to us ( and everyone else) the difference in his manner there. When he dances with Pen, the world around him disappears. He's looking at her and giving to her his full attention. And that necessity of the other is going to be more and more strong. Nothing else matters.

Deblin's dance

This moment is to tell us and Colin something special. Pen is who is going away this time. She found another partner that's welling to dance with her. To accepting her, but specially someone who see her for what she's. A woman. She's not the little girl of the first dance. She's a grown woman and she feels desired for the first time in all her life. Someone is noticing her, and they're very open to do so in from of the eyes of all the town. Something that was just between Colin and her, now is not only about the two of them. It's someone else ready to be a dancer, and with that, we see Colin craving the thing Pen was wishing for years. He is the wallflower now. The places are changed. And now he is watching someone else take the love of his life in front of him. Someone  he doesn't know anything about and he doesn't care, but who is taken everything from him. It's so painful to him that even seeing them hurts him so much, and then she smiles, and nothing belongs to him anymore. She doesn't belong to him anymore. His partner in life is choosing dancing with someone else, through his eyes she's choosing a life with someone else that's not him. His "life" is taken away from him.

The Eros and Pysque dance.

Telling a story through dance is a beautiful way to do it. Bodies expressing themselves, the desire, the fears, the love invading the air. That's the Eros and Psyque dance. it's there to remember love, is a dance about love and for love. The love that Pen is giving away, but she craves. The love she dreamed all her life. She's leaving all her hopes there, in the dance floor. But all her hopes revived again in the same place. Dancing is a way to remember the feeling. So, when she dances with Debling she has that need of love again, she's looking for it, asking for it, searching for it one more time. Wishing one more time having love in her life: the love that she always dream about.

Colin interrumpting

Finding the courage to fight for what you want and you wish is not always easy. Specially when you're always caring about others. The reason why Colin is a good dancer and a good partner for Pen, it's that.  He really cares, he always puts others needs first. But this can make you lose everything you want, and you're. Because being a good partner is not only about caring about the other, it's about knowing how to express your own needs too. You can't have a connection with someone else if you don't express yourself and hide yourself and your wishes.

So, dance is again a way to tale the story and connect with the other. He goes to the ball to find her, and he's there to ask for what he wants, maybe the first time in his life. He's there for her, but specially for him. He's again in the dance floor. Life starts again for him, he puts himself there and he's ready to fight for it, for her, for himself.

The church and 3x06.

Words sometimes doesn't mean anything. But sometimes it's all what it matters. There in the church both know for the first the time that the other loves them. The most important thing for them is a reality, the bond between them is sealed. Dancing with the other is a promise. The promise that the love they feel for the other is real and it's going to be there. It's not casual she confess her love there, because her love is saving him from torture. Before she said she loves him, he was so insecure about her feelings and know she is realising him from that torture. They're alone, but they're together. They always will be.

If you dance with someone else, you would have to care about the other needs, what they're feeling, prioritizing even their needs. A good partner doesn't care so much about what is happening around them, most about what the partner is feeling in the moment. It's not easy to always know how your comunícate your needs and accepting your mistakes.

Learning with the other, and trying new things is not always easy.

Struggling can be a problem. Accepting the other is too. In the 3x06 we see them enjoying themselves, but then the danger of LW appears between them Pen can follow his steps because she overhears something, Colin gets distracted too. The world is reapering between them, is breaking the connection. It's foreshadowing us that problems are going to be there between them, they're not in syn anymore. They want differents things and problems are close.

The world around them is a danger to them. And it's gaining the battle.

But the feelings for each other are more stronger. So, even when it looks that everything is going to separate them, nothing really matters.

This is what happens in the wedding dance. Their connection is so strong that they lose themselves in the other. There are just both of them, it's not world around them. The connection and necessity of the other is so strong that is all what it's: the other. It's like a hypnotic dream. They don't care about anything else. The only one thing is important is the other and they love each other. It's all what is there.

The last dance is and acceptance dance. Is the dance after the storm. Because they found each other again. Now, after all the pain, we see each other and they accept the other with more intensity than before. Now, they're enjoying themselves again and the life that is coming. It's a full circle. The world is there, but it doesn't matter. Nothing is going to break them now. No matter what happens in the future. They trust in the other and they know the dance floor belongs to them. They're going to be able to dance with the other the rest of their lifes.

Life is a dance, but together.

[descendantofthesparrow]

Remember when the Audrey villain leaks came out and then we saw the offical c4 and s3 outfit reveals and saw the c4 on the isle and the s3 in an auradon forest and we all thought there had been some sort of time spell where Audrey twisted time and instead of the c4 coming to Auradon it was the s3 so Audrey stayed with Ben and there was a whole adventue to fix the timeline? no? just me? okay

[idliketobeatree]

I just had an idea, thinking about how S2 established that Aziraphale and Crowley are very much capable of creating embassies out of places they consider their own— and how much they've been trying to achieve that peaceful existence without compromising the life belonging on this planet.

I don't know how Aziraphale and Crowley would do it – surely they'd need something stronger than a 25 Lazarii miracle – but if they can share property over the bookshop and the Bentley, making it impossible for demons (angels too?) to cross over uninvited, maybe they could call the entire Earth their home? So that no one could go there with ill intentions, the Second Coming business or otherwise. And if they aren't powerful enough? The combined forces of the new Supreme Archangel and the new Duke of Hell, or even a former demon who was a high-ranking angel before the Fall, aided by f.e. Beelzebub and Gabriel would probably do the trick. Seems crazy, but really, they've been the protectors all along. And it's not like Earth would be permanently closed off; Aziraphale would simply stand on guard, like he was meant to do from the start. Just because She doesn't watch over anymore, doesn't mean they couldn't, and you have to admit there are no better candidates for the task.

[the-names-kam]

in honor of me finally watching season 2 of the bad batch (and once again losing my mind over these two) i decided to redraw this old comic of mine!

(originally based off of this post by @simplysummers!)

[shima-draws]

Not sure how I feel about that ending tbh :-/ Idk what it was about season 4 but it kinda just felt. Lazy? Especially since it was only 6 episodes instead of the usual 10

There’s just so many things they could have and SHOULD have done and explained that they didn’t. Why did Ray leave Allison? Why did none of the Sparrows exist in the new timeline? Why wasn’t Luther way more upset about losing his WIFE? Why were things just chill between Allison and Viktor after all the shit she put him through? Why didn’t she ever apologize? Why the FUCK did they make this random side arc to force a romance between Lila and Five that never even got resolved btw!!! And speaking of things that never got resolved. Ben?? They just. Fucking left him? I thought this season was gonna be all about saving Ben and bringing him back into the family. And Jennifer? Why was she even there we got no explanation to her powers or why she was randomly inside a giant squid or why her powers were different from everyone else’s and why she got them. Also I’m SO pissed they decided to go the “they need to be erased from existence for there to be peace” route, that’s such a cheap way out 😭 Really did not like that ending. I GET the whole message but that doesn’t mean I have to like it lmao

There’s just so many loose ends they didn’t tie up and it just felt. Super unsatisfying. I miss the first two seasons those were both really well done and felt like more cohesive of a story 😔

[winnie-the-monster]

[strawberryicemoon]

Why I can't watch the Ducktales Finale

I'm not the kind of person who struggles to watch the last episode of something. I love to finish a show, and let it sit in my brain. I'm the kind of person who often enjoys spoilers because it adds to my understanding of the media. I love to view the media in their entirety just as much as I love a journey to get there.

But I can't get past the first few minutes of Ducktales 2017, The Last Adventure. And it's because of spoilers that I couldn't deal with. I don't like them, and even years later after I've had time to digest, and have seen so many finale clips, that I still can't just sit down and watch it. And I've made attempts. I've looked through the summary of the episode to prepare. But I can't.

And there's... a couple of things that rub me the wrong way about the Finale that keep me from being able to just watch it.

1. Webby is Scrooge's Clone Daughter

2. Webby is April, of April May and June

3. Donald and Daisy are going on vacation.

Now, I don't actually hate any of these... conceptually. And I'm well aware that Frank Angones has stated the Webby twist was planned from very early on. And usually I am completely down for whatever a finale is, as long as I can tell that this was something the creator really believed in.

I'm a fan of such "controversial" endings as, Amphibia and Digimon Adventure 02, because I know exactly why they ended like that. It's written in the themes. Even if it took me time to understand Adventure's ending, I've grown to understand it and love it once I learned more about the original Japanese version and the shows production (and also grew up myself). Amphibia ended exactly as I expected based on one of the very earliest things I heard about the show from Matt Braly: "an ode to past friendships". Even if I think there are things they messed up I GET IT. I wouldn't want them ending any other way.

So I understand WHY the decision is made. Conceptually it does make sense. Webby exists as a composite character of April May and June, and I believe shares the same name as April in one language. Webby being Scrooge's clone daughter is an effective way of full-circling her relationship with him. Strangers in each other's home to father and daughter. She's family not BECAUSE of Blood, but because of Love. She still loves her Granny, it's just the non blood relationship wasn't the one she thought it was. And Donald deserves a vacation, and to have the more down to earth life experiences he wanted, especially after raising his sisters kids alone for 10 years.

But they still twist me up inside.

And I think it comes down to three reasons: 1. Lack of Continuity between episodes 2. An over-focusing on Scrooge 3. Handling of Word of God

1. Lack of Continuity between episodes Part of what got me to fall in love with Ducktales was S1 and the continuity of the Spear of Selene subplot. We got hints at a semi-regular pace, but it successfully overhung the entire series. It was what separated Scrooge and Donald. It was why Della was gone. The subject matter was of course not something that needed to be overstated, as most of it was being kept hush hush. Sure it was a mystery, but not an urgent one. Dewey had never had his mom, so it wasn't like he couldn't focus on anything else for a while

But in S2 I started noticing that the show stopped explaining or foreshadowing things. Maybe it always did, I haven't re watched it properly. But I definitely noticed something off about the storytelling then. But it was definitely a problem throughout the show.

Webby never brought up Lena after her sacrifice until the relevant episode.

Lena living with the Sabrewings was something never brought up until episodes later we saw her with them.

We had Della talking about the boys with their "Uncles" setting up the pain of not knowing how things fell apart after her departure, only to get no payoff.

We didn't get ANYTHING about Webby's parentage until the final episode, and barely a hint in 1 season 3 episode.

Almost every finale episode changes the status quo in some way. The question is how much. Lots of final episodes kind of have things going back to the way they were before plot kicked off but better (like with new friends or a new government). Sometimes someone dies.

Webby being Scrooge's clone is paradigm shifting. And that kind of thing needs to be set up. You CANNOT catch your audience off guard with something like that.

In Digimon Adventure 02 the series ends with everyone on earth with a digimon partner which is controversial but at least built up throughout the series at hints of other digidestined until an arc near the end showcased many international digidestined. Hilda ends with the reveal that Hilda's mother is half-fairy, and despite not being present throughout the first two seasons, it was hinted at through the third season, and contextualized some of the few things we did know before about Johanna's childhood. The Hollow's first season ends with you finding out it was all a game, but it had been hinted at before with the video game nature of the world. Sure Avatar didn't hint at Aang getting the power to take away bending, but we knew he was a pacifist who didn't want to kill so was looking for a solution, getting the power to remove bending (ie power over others) works thematically, in the same way Anne using the power of the stones and getting brought back to life by a god like being worked. Sure, Scratch turning out to be a wraith at the end of The Ghost and Molly McGee was rather sudden, but people had been theorizing that Todd was Scratch's body for a long time, so it wasn't like there weren't any hints, and while the show was cut short and had to rush to end, the build up of Scratch's memories at least gave some sort of foreshadowing link to what was going on.

There's a reason people rarely throw in new characters at the very end of a show. It can absolutely work. Amphibia and The Owl House threw in "God" at the end, but that gets a pass for being the kind of figure they meet once and then move on with their lives. On the other side, you can sometimes have secret big bads that were pulling the strings the whole time too. I can't speak for the finale of Ducktales (because again, can't bring myself to watch it), but adding two new characters on top of changing the entire dynamic of how the family is set up at the very end of the show does not sit well with me. We won't get to see how this change in status quo effects the characters. We saw how learning about their mom affected the boys relationship with Scrooge, her return and having to build a relationship with her and her presence conflicting with Launchpad's. But we don't get that with Scrooge and Webby? Basically too many status quo shifts in the finale all at once.

All we got was Beakley was a spy, was overprotective of Webby, and a few episodes before the end it was revealed Beakley was lying to her. Webby didn't seem to care about her parents. And this was a girl who was very dedicated to unraveling the secrets of clan mcduck. Couldn't they have had one hint at some point in the show where it was unclear if it was the boys or Webby who were recognized as a McDuck? Some offhand mention where the boys ask her about HER parents, because she helped them with her mom?

You couldn't tell what was or was not going be important in the way they dropped. It's very hard to set your expectations when you had no clue what to expect. And while there is something to be said for unexpected surprises and twists in a story, an audience really needs to know what is or is important or they're going to go on wild goose chases and get disappointed when they build up hype for something the show then refuses to address.

In HINDSIGHT, I find it extremely odd that Huey and Louie, prior to finding out about Dewey's investigations, did not pry at ALL into the fact that hey: if Donald was an adventurer with Scrooge, then he had to know their mom. Like that’s weird right?

2. An over-focusing on Scrooge Scrooge is the Center of the Universe.

I'm not a Disney Ducks fan. Aside from 2017, and pop culture osmosis, I know very little. But the thing is I am someone whose first inclination once I become a fan of something is to check out the wiki pages for information. Find about what longstanding fan mysteries there are. I understand the importance of cross continuity callbacks. I'm a fan of other longstanding series and have rubbed elbows with several others. I get really long franchises with several iterations.

Which is to say that I, despite not having a horse in this race, understand how this works and how it should work.

Now a bit of this is the fact Ducktales is ABOUT Scrooge. But Scrooge isn't the center of the Duck universe. Something I find pretty interesting is the fact that Donald has reasonably fleshed out family trees on both sides of his family. That's cool. That's how real people work, a meeting point of the stories of those who came before. But Ducktales doesn't care, the only adult the show cares about is him. I get that to a certain extent it was the show execs insisting on focusing on the kids. And again, he's kind of the main character. But you brought back Donald, and Della. There are other characters here with rich lives, he doesn't need to take over everything.

It's especially egregious ANY time the McDuck clan gets involved. Could Matilda be the youngest child now? Sure. But that's a really arbitrary change, that they don't use for anything. And even if that was purposeful, the fact is that the first thing they established is Donald's mom is still Scrooge's sister, so Donald is the grandson of Fergus and Downy McDuck. Not nephew? Surely they could recognize him? But where is Hortense and Quackmore? They brought them up in the first episode, and then they never made any appearances aside from references. Why were Donald and Della staying with Scrooge for Christmas? Never clarified. Fans (reasonably) assumed they were dead. Scrooge called Donald his ward (admittedly when he also called him Fergus and Downy’s nephew rather than grandson). I mean where else would they be when their DAUGHTER DISAPPEARED. Would they not want to meet their grandchildren? But that was never clarified. And I've seen some fans alternatively interpret them as bad parents, which I think is just really unfair. Scrooge gets to be the good parent? It's once again Scrooge to the rescue. The CAPITALIST? I mean it's also a little bit just a family issue in general: It's Uncle Gladstone and Cousin Fethry when they are theoretically the same: technically cousins but old enough to be honorary uncles. It's fair enough. But really that brings us to the Duck family in general.

Grandma Duck? What about Gladstone and Fethry's parents? Gus Goose? Are they all dead? Does Fethry have any siblings? Do the boys not know or not care about the Duck side of the family? They know Gladstone but no one else? I mean Scrooge's parents, who should be dead, were magically kept alive but nothing for the duck family. Speaking of which, they constantly bring up how old Scrooge and occasionally refer to the causes of his supernatural age, but that does not explain how young Donald and Della are compared to him. Overall, we get nothing on the Duck family except for its existence at least, so even removed from the context of Disney Ducks legacy its weird to introduce a side of the family and just gloss over it.

The one episode about the Duck family legacy is a Webby episode. Which, fine, she's not a Duck, but she's part of the family. Except wait. She's Scrooge's daughter/clone, and you gave her the focus on the one episode about the Duck family not the McDuck's? You couldn't leave Scrooge out of anything?

So for Webby's great twist in the finale, was taking not just one, but two characters NOT related to Scrooge (April and Webby), and tying them to Scrooge. I think I could deal with Webby being April, and (HUGE MAYBE) Webby being Scrooge’s clone or April being Scrooge’s clone but not both. Not to mention April, May and June are DAISY's nieces... not random three girls who are her boyfriends uncles clone and and boyfriends uncles clones clone? It doesn't sit right with me that a character who I thought was supposed to be learning that he was sometimes in the wrong, and not the center of morality (see how he made Glomgold a villain through his own ego), continue to be made the center of the universe in ways he simply shouldn't be.

He's literally an old rich guy. Like there is historical context for why this character is like this, but why does the world revolve around him in this show.

3. Word of God Word of God is useful. As are interviews and statements made by the creator. It helps to provide insight into the themes. I love seeing the person behind the art.

But here's the thing. Word of God is clarification, insight into how you should look at the work to set expectations. It's supplementary. It doesn't replace text.

This is a little bit difficult to really talk about now that I'm several years removed from the experience, so grain of salt and all, but I really think the way Word of God was handled did the show a disservice.

Back to Lena becoming a Sabrewing, we didn't get that in show. Lena just dropped off the face of the earth, not until S3’s premier we got a clarification on that in show.

We never got Della's reaction to learning that Donald and Scrooge were estranged, she just suddenly stopped speaking under that assumption.

So Word of God became an essential part of understanding the text, because a lot of necessary information was left unexplained by the canon its a huge problem. And Word of God is often fluid. It can be changed later if during the writing process something changes. (We should probably cover this topic in show and want to do it a bit differently, I have a great Idea of what we can do to turn that error into foreshadowing, I was lying to the fans to keep a secret).

But when word of god is necessary, word of god becomes essential for tempering expectations about the show.

This is probably going to be less of an issue for people who come and watch the show later. Sure, things are still unexplained, but when you can binge the show Lena's unexplained absence is less obvious, you're so busy moving on to other things that Della's change in understanding about the situation is clearly unimportant and you can move on.

But what ended up happening is that Frank Angones struggled to balance clarifications, keeping show secrets, and a sometimes changing story. Which sometimes left characters completely sure on where the story was sitting, only for it to be ripped out from under them. Also, tying back to the first point, of plot points being dropped until the episode where they where they were relevant made it VERY difficult to tell what was or wasn’t going to be relevant, and what emotional beats to get emotionally invested in.

Prior to the finale there was a bit of a community of Webby/Triplet shippers. Personally, I see that as a complete dismissal of the themes of the show and a bit heteronormative. I avoided all such content. But at the same time, shipping doesn't hurt anyone. At the end of the day, the boys and Webby were not related by blood, and hadn't even met until age 10. There wasn't... really a reason you couldn't ship them. There are TONS of shows out there with 10 year old characters and love interests. Just off the top of my head: Any Ship with Ash Ketchum, Sprigivy, Phinabella, Kenyako, Sorato. Even if they don't get together at 10, (or at all) the fact of the matter is 10 year olds getting shipped is old news. I'm still attached to Pokeshipping and Takari to this day, even if I tend to see them more as platonic relationships these days. So I avoided all shipping with them, but I understood why people (particularly younger people) were shipping them. Until the finale hit, and the ships that people thought never going to be canon, but were safe, weren't. To a certain extent, that's the game you play with shipping clearly noncanonical ships. But I feel that the way questions about shipping were answered didn't help, because iirc he tended to say the show wouldn't focus on that more than he explicitly stated the kids were family. He called Webby/Triplet shipping highly unlikely for example, giving it more legitimacy than a no, which leant to it being taken as a solid fact prior to the finale that Webby was definitely not related to the boys, because a lot of what else was said was solid fact.

4. (Bonus): of course, I do also feel it kind of isn't enough to justify breaking the found family. So much of Webby's arc was being accepted into the family. Becoming the 4th triplet. So for her to have been blood all along is a little cheap. Sure it doesn't break the becoming family despite blood before. But, having meta-knowledge of Launchpad probably finding family with Gosalyn and Drake Mallard, it's just Beakley whose left as not blood related (and she's technically the help...). And yeah, there's the Granny/Grandaughter adopted relationship. But....

Webby is one of four kids. Again, she became one of the kids. So yeah. I'm happy that she became one of the kids. Able to call him uncle scrooge. But it feels weird to me that she, the kid who already lived in the manor with Scrooge even if they kept their distance, displaced the triplets as Scrooge's natural heirs. The uncle relationships in this show being parental/grandparental was already good. Not all families look the same, some people parent their siblings' kids for one reason or another. Scrooge's presumed "heirs' ' was his sister's descendants, not his, but he loved them like his own. That's good. So to not only break the "not blood related at all" to "actually daughter", kind of ALSO meant a "my niblings are my legacy" got overtaken with "my daughter is my legacy".

And maybe I'd feel less sour about it if we had more time after the show. But on a fundamental level it didn't just alter Webby's place in the family, but her grandmother's, and the Duck Twins and Triplets. Again, especially with the triplets. I wanted the four of them to become functional equals. The 4th triplet. But for her to have a secret Scrooge connection that overtakes the one she was jealous of the triplets of having doesn't sit right to say the least.

I feel I could get over this one, especially maybe if they gave us more time. But it just didn't make it worth it to me.

5. (Bonus Bonus): Now I don't use the term Mary Sue lightly. But what I do think of canon Mary Sueism is a tendency to make female characters on predominately male casts "special" in some way to justify their presence. They have to be the level headed smart ones and the ones with . They have to be likable so they're robbed of character. I wouldn't say Webby is a particularly bad example of this, and it's not like Ducktales lacks other flawed female characters (Della my beloved).

But the way Webby is treated reminds me of April from TMNT 2012, and Allura from Voltron Legendary Defender (and kinda Larmina from Voltron Force). All are 80s characters in shows that had a predominately male cast of characters, and who were both an outsider, and defined by being a girl. And then the reboot both doubled down on making them special, integrating them into the group more, but also making them generally tougher the boys in some way, and also sometimes more in the know about things. Webby is aged up to match the boys age rather than aged down to match the boys age like April but the effect is still the same.

The girl is now a peer to the boys, 4th triplet, rather than a little sister. Webby is more capable and well-read than any of the boys. And at the start of the series she's socially awkward enough it feels like it will work. And I'm not saying Webby isn't flawed, she is. But when it comes to the things the family finds important: adventuring, she doesn't have any obvious shortcomings. Louie quits easily and isn't as coordinated, Dewey is reckless and generally uneducated, and Huey isn't flexible. And Webby... used to be socially awkward???

It’s kinda trading 1 sexist trope for another. And yeah, all shows do have OTHER female characters who kind of avert this. But it doesn’t change the fact the leading lady is more “special” than the boys. Like being a girl has to be special.

In short, at the end of the day Webby being Scrooge's daughter doesn't help her character, her grandmothers, or the rest of the family. It kinda helps Scrooge’s character, but while I haven’t seen the episode myself, I’m not sure there would be enough time for it to be meaningful. And again, I think a lot of the characterization and worldbuilding of other characters were already sacrificed for Scrooge’s sake in the show already.

Oh and the Donald/Daisy thing.

The reason Daisy/Donald's trip doesn't sit right with me is we barely got any Donald and Della having to coparent. Get used to each other again. We barely got any of them and we're heading back into separation. It doesn’t feel cathartic when we still have unanswered questions from this stage in their life. And even if the trip is well, a trip. It feels weird.

It feels kind of unexpectedly "conventional family", even if it's still really unconventional. Donald is going to go be happy with his love interest, away from the boys he raised who aren't actually his sons (and yes, I know he takes May and June with him but still, knowing that May and June are by default Daisy's nieces kind of has "new kids with new wife" implications to me but that's neither here nor there). Adding this to "Webby being Scrooge's daughter is a good plot point for him" and it's just really weird, and kind of feels like the final nail in the nontraditional family dynamics coffin. If feel only way they could have buried it more is if Beakley died or something.

I was already kinda uncomfortable with the “Daisy being the only one to understand him” thing because like. That’s sweet. His soulmate is the only one who really hears him. But also that’s a fucking speech impediment Donald has. Are you telling me that no one in his family cared enough to effectively communicate with him despite his disability? Like if it is REALLY that much a problem he should have an effective communication method. Sign-language for example?

The triplets he raised don’t always understand him. His twin sister doesn’t always understand him? But this random woman does? I am all for Daisy and Donald being basically soulmates. But uh? This feels both ableist and allonormative in a show that really wasn’t those things before. (well okay it was kinda ableist about Donald but it felt less weird to me when there wasn’t one person who could magically understand Donald). And Daisy understanding him still could be a big thing? The first person who understood him without getting to know him first/wasn’t literally raising him/raised with/raised by him?

I want to like Daisy so much, but she just feels a bit like Webby does: a legacy female character they are trying to make too cool, who gets some of their coolness incidentally defined by a male character, rather than a full-fledged character on their own. (For instance if we saw Daisy with anyone other than Donald, her overbearing boss and… whatever Storkules is). 

I feel some of these may have been resolved with more time. But some of these problems had their seeds planted as early as S1. That said I think if the quality of S1 was maintained they would have been fine. Overall, I think Ducktales is a good reboot, and a good show, but it really could have been better. Was so close to being better.

[chrliekclly]

sunny nd corporate using th same stock img model allows me to put them nto th same universe n my brain nd only i care abt it but im posting it n e way

[tea-earl-grey]

i'm not super into star trek novels and the beta canon and whatnot but i'm so glad that i read Last Best Hope because it really makes Picard s1 infinitely better on rewatch (and i say this as a Picard enjoyer/defender). like 100% recommend if you're even a little bit interested in Picard era worldbuilding.

[carbonbasedmatter]

I just think it would be funny if we called troy x britta/tritta or whatever they're called michael jackson² 😞

[feralnumberfive]

I'm going to start a Community on here called "I fucking hate Number Five"

[doctorhoe]

there are worms in my hippocampus again so: do you ever think about how basically every new companion had a doctorfication thing going an which led to them wanting to stay with the doctor and live a life that they weren't suited for? how basically all of them only left either by straight up dying or at a point where there was no other option? do you ever think about how the only character to leave before it was too late was martha? have you ever asked yourself "what's different about martha then?" she already starts the show as a doctor. that's the difference.

[krikeymate]

Season 2 concept

It’s the winter holidays. Wednesday goes to visit Enid, a suspicious and strange murder happens nearby, and Wednesday, of course, becomes intrigued. Enid reluctantly drags herself into it because of course she cannot let Wednesday do this alone. The investigation leads them out of the town, they follow it and end up accidentally picking up their other friends along the way - much to Wednesday’s irritation. Xavier hires a minivan.

Meanwhile, Christmas looms ever closer and whilst Wednesday is trying to solve a goddamn murder - if she has to hear another Christmas song there’s going to be so many more murders, her friends are trying to get her into the holiday spirit. All the while, Wednesday continues to receive texts from her stalker, unbeknown to the others, although Enid does think it’s strange how often Wednesday looks to her phone, given all their friends are already here and how she hates social media. Wednesday confesses to Enid about the stalker in the penultimate episode, and demands she keeps the information to herself.

In the last episode, it opens with a mistletoe scene, which finds Wednesday and Xavier under the mistletoe, and she brutally cuts him down about the stupid concept in front of all their friends. Later sees Enid unknowingly standing under the same piece of mistletoe, she’s frowning at her phone, she looks worried, she’s thinking about the stalker. Wednesday walks up to her, asks her what’s wrong and they talk about the situation. Wednesday kisses her on the cheek, and points up to the mistletoe as Enid asks what that was for; “It’s tradition, is it not.” Enid beams and returns the gesture.

Wednesday says she’s going to buy some stupid Christmas gifts as a thank you to the gang for helping her solve the murder. We see Wednesday with some bags, she sees the perfect gift for Enid in a shop window, buys it, and as she is walking back towards the van, she’s attacked. The stalker has struck. The others are waiting for Wednesday by the van, Enid is anxious - she should have been back by now. We pan back several allys away, where there are some abandoned bags, a puddle of blood, and a broken phone, lying in the snow.

The End.

[cyberdragoninfinity]

🔥 for gx 🐶

🔥 Season 3 is honestly my least favorite GX season. like when it's good it's REALLY FUCKING GOOD (i.e. Zane vs. Yubeljesse) but there's so much of it that drags like hell ESPECIALLY for like the first two thirds of the damn season. Professor Viper's BS is.. not. very good. lol. also idk I've never been a particularly big fan of the narrative decisions that season does to Jaden's character, either, I feel like it throws a lot of his personality out the window the further the season goes on and I just don't really like it much.

(though I do think gx bounces back in s4 and i love the arc jaden has there, grappling with his own depression and despair and learning to have fun and be passionate for what he loves again. that is PEAK yugioh to me)

[geraskier-thots]

i thought something was missing idk